One of DEN’s aims is to develop a link to our local schools, colleges and communities. We have established links to the Capital City College Group and Leyton Sixth Form College. The students and staff from the colleges and schools have attended DEN’s meeting, and annual conference and write for our online magazine.
The Democratic Educational Network held its 6th Annual Conference on May 12th, 2023, at the University of Westminster, in conjunction with the “Racism in Higher Education and Beyond” conference the day before, and was very successful. Both conferences brought together educators, students, researchers, and activists to discuss and present their ideas on achieving sustainable development...
My time at Westminster University started off by being told a few days before that my group and I would be speaking at a conference on various topics including international business which is a subject of interest for us all. I would describe the general feeling of us all nervousness – we had previously pitched for donations three times in different locations to different...
The Democratic Education Network (DEN) organised its annual field trip experience between January and March 2022. However, the virtual idea was born out of necessity during the COVID-19 pandemic when taking students on an actual field trip to Vietnam became impossible. The project is part of an ongoing collaboration between the University of Westminster and...
It was not that long time ago, I was sitting at my desk, struggling to remember how to write my own name, my mind was foggy… As someone who usually has got no problem with writing, and certainly not talking, at that moment, I was not capable of composing a simple, ordinary sentence. Is that...
Black History Month is an annual celebration of achievements of blacks and Africans in diaspora and a time for recognising the central roles of Blacks in US history. The Story of Black History Month began in 1915, half a century after the 13th amendment was passed; the abolishment of slavery in the United States of...
The video below highlights students’ perspectives of what Black History Month is and why it is so important to celebrate the achievements that individuals within the African diaspora have been through.
They say that a picture is worth more than a thousand words. In this series of photo essays, Mahnoor Shahid and Tasneem Fadel will be taking us on a special journey that recalls some of the instances and unique moments of their recent educational trip to Vietnam. Through their photographs, they will share a creative...
Last Thursday on October 11th, the Students for Free Tibet Society and the Centre for Study of Democracy in Westminster University invited poet-activist Tenzin Tsundue and Wangden Kyab, a senior researcher of the Tibet Watch Research Team to have a conversation with Professor Dibyesh Anand on human rights, politics, China and Tibet. The floor opens...
Democratic Education Network (DEN) hosted their second international student conference on 11th and 12th May called Global Crisis: Local Voices. The Democratic Education Network is an academic student-led organization of the Department of Politics and International (DPIR). The conference like last year was a two-day long affair packed with stimulating panels, a theatre production and...
(The following article is the author’s reflection on the circumstances which led her to pen a piece of spoken word poetry titled ‘Samia Yusuf Omar.’ It is also a critical assessment of the conversations surrounding the ongoing refugee crisis. The author performed the piece at a Student Action for Refugees (STAR) event which took place...
Nations are commonly described as a community of people with shared history, language, descent, culture and inhabiting a particular territory. However, a state, defined as the government that directs, rules the nations, is often seen as a legitimizing factor for recognition of nations. Hence, what we see today in global politics are not nations but...
There are several projects within the Democratic Education Network that have started recently, and one of those is called the Refugees in the UK Documentary Project. It has been presented by team member Nausheen Khan that the focus will be on refugees who fled their country of origin post-2001 to arrive in the UK and...